The question was, “How do God’s Sovereign ways encourage me?” My first thought was His Sovereignty instead of encouraging was confusing me. I am reading, This Beautiful Truth by Sarah Clarkson. The subtitle is, How God’s Goodness Breaks Into Our Darkness. This book opens up the idea that we were never created to live with […]

Pay attention and turn your ear to the sayings of the wise;     apply your heart to what I teach,  for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart     and have all of them ready on your lips.  So that your trust may be in the Lord,     I teach you today, even you.  Have I not […]

There are those things that seem to happen by default. If no intention is set the usual thing happens. Where there is no vision the people perish, this is what Solomon taught us in his Proverbs. There are certain things we each know will get done, no matter what, they will just get done. The […]

It is the first of December. The end of the year. December seems slow and tempts me with thoughts of joining in the fun of winding down, celebrating an anniversary, filling my oven with chocolate chip cookies, listening to Christmas music, walking outside where the air feels crisp and clear. December does not lack its […]

I know they are there behind me and if I run they will too. They are truth stolen and fear rewarded, hope declined and love destroyed. Then there is faith, “the substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1) Faith is a collision of spiritual and physical. Divine and human nature […]